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Friday, April 13, 2007
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Snapshots from Home A Regular UD Feature UD wasn't within one hundred miles of her Northwestern University graduation ceremony. She only went to her University of Chicago graduation ceremony because her mother, desperate to see UD graduate from somewhere, forced her onto an airplane. So UD has trouble wrapping her mind around the immense upheaval on her campus, George Washington University, about this year's commencement speaker. (Here's Wonkette's amusing take on it.) As a parting gesture, retiring President Stephen Trachtenberg will give the address, but students, expecting a big name from outside the school, feel insulted. They're organizing a protest. The students have a point. All sorts of homages to Trachtenberg, including any homage he wants to give himself, can be fitted in to the ceremony. The commencement speaker should be an unfamiliar face, hauled in to praise the students and tell them how to live their lives. Trachtenberg's been a familiar face and a familiar speaker since the students in the graduating class arrived at GW. They know what he's got to say. |